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Suns Of Thunder ‘Start As You Mean To Get Down’
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Suns Of Thunder ‘Start As You Mean To Get Down’ CD/DD 2015

9th April 201611th September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2015, CD, Digital, Heavy Rock, Ollie Stygall, Review, Rock 'n' Roll, Self Released, Start As You Mean To Get Down, Suns Of Thunder

Let’s start this review with a little geography lesson. Wales is the largest county in England. It is owned by

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Old Man Gloom ‘Mickey Rookey Live At London’
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Old Man Gloom ‘Mickey Rookey Live At London’ CD/LP 2016

6th April 201611th September 2019 Daniel Pietersen CD, Daniel Pietersen, Doom, Ektro Records, Full Contact Records, Heavy, LP, Mickey Rookey Live At London, Old Man Gloom, Post-Hardcore, Review

Live albums are a curious beast. Stick too closely to the hits and you risk giving the audience a not-quite-as-good

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Voivod 'Post Society'
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Voivod ‘Post Society’ CD/DD 2016

5th April 201611th September 2019 Paul Robertson 2016, CD, Century Media, Digital, Experimental, Metal, Paul Robertson, Post Society, Prog Rock, Review, Thrash Metal, Voivod

This may come as almost as big a shock as anything received at the Morgoth Science Hospital when you consider

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Sumac 'What One Becomes'
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Sumac ‘What One Becomes’ CD/LP/DD 2016

4th April 201611th September 2019 Jay Hampshire 2016, CD, Digital, Doom, Experimental, Heavy, Jay Hampshire, LP, Post-Rock, Review, Sumac, Thrill Jockey Records, What One Becomes

Promotional snippets for Sumac’s latest full-length What One Becomes summarise the records’ tone and content more succinctly than should be

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Victims 'Sirens'
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Victims ‘Sirens’ CD/LP/DD 2016

31st March 201611th September 2019 Angela Davey 2016, Angela Davey, CD, Crust, D-Beat, Digital, Hardcore, LP, Review, Sirens, Tankcrimes, Victims

Since their inception back in ’97, Victims have been bridging the gap between hardcore punk/crust/d-beat and the rest of the

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Seven Sisters Of Sleep ‘Ezekial’s Hags’
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Seven Sisters Of Sleep ‘Ezekial’s Hags’ CD/LP/DD 2016

30th March 201611th September 2019 Jeremy Moore 2016, CD, Digital, Doom, Ezekial’s Hags, Hardcore, Jeremy Moore, LP, Relapse Records, Review, Seven Sisters Of Sleep, Sludge

Get ready for an old school schooling in how new school extreme metal should be done the old school way.

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Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik 'Skuggsjá'
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Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik ‘Skuggsjá’ CD/LP/DD 2016

29th March 201611th September 2019 Will Beattie 2016, Black Metal, CD, Digital, Einar Selvik, Folk, Ivar Bjørnson, LP, Norse, Review, Seasons Of Mist, Skuggsjá, Will Beattie

Forget the church burnings, the murders, that kvlt feeling when you hold your original pressing of Bathory’s ‘The Yellow Goat’

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Spider Kitten ‘Ark Of Octofelis’
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Spider Kitten ‘Ark Of Octofelis’ CD/LP/DD/CS 2016

28th March 201611th September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2016, Ark Of Octofelis, Cassette, CD, Digital, Doom, Experimental, Heavy, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Post-Rock, Review, Spider Kitten, Undergroove Records

Another month and seemingly another release from prolific Newport collective Spider Kitten. Having made critical waves following the release of

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The Body & Full Of Hell 'One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache'
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The Body & Full Of Hell ‘One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache’ CD/DD 2016

26th March 201613th September 2019 Angela Davey 2016, Angela Davey, CD, Digital, Experimental, Full Of Hell, Hardcore, Heavy, Neurot Recordings, One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache, Review, The Body

Traditionally, The Body’s collaborations (to date they’ve paired up with The Haxan Cloak, Krieg, Thou and Vampilla) have allowed them

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Mugstar 'Magnetic Seasons'
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Mugstar ‘Magnetic Seasons’ CD/LP/DD 2016

20th March 201613th September 2019 Jeremy Moore 2016, CD, Digital, Jeremy Moore, Kraut, LP, Magnetic Seasons, Mugstar, Psych, Review, Rock Action Records, Space Rock

Instrumental rock is a dangerous territory in a digital era of increasingly short attention spans unwilling to give an album

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Black Cobra ‘Imperium Simulacra’
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Black Cobra ‘Imperium Simulacra’ CD/LP/DD 2016

20th March 201613th September 2019 Pete Green 2016, Black Cobra, CD, Digital, Imperium Simulacra, LP, Metal, Pete Green, Review, Season Of Mist, Sludge, Thrash Metal

Just as tick precedes tock, as clip leads clop and as bish paves the way for bosh, so too does

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